Title: Plugin: Smart Update Pinger
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Plugin: Smart Update Pinger

 *  [cyner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyner/)
 * (@cyner)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/)
 * Smart Update Pinger replaces the built-in update ping functionality. Instead 
   of always pinging when saving a post, the plugin only pings when the post has
   not previously been published. Edits of posts are “silent”, in contrast with 
   the default behaviour.
 * [Download it here.](http://www.daven.se/english/wp-plugins.html)
 * Motivation: When you edit an older post and ping a service, the service either
   shows your blog’s URL or the latest post’s URL. Never the edited post’s—unless
   it is the latest, of course. This is misleading and could even get you banned
   for pingspamming, unless you’re careful.

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 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/#post-239080)
 * This should be the default IMO.
 *  [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
 * (@tomhanna)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/#post-239096)
 * Agreed.
 *  [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
 * (@tomhanna)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/#post-239097)
 * Sweet! It works! You the man!
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/#post-239117)
 * Just installed it. Thanks! 😀
 * However, why ping when saving a draft? The blog itself hasn’t been updated according
   to the outside world…
 *  Thread Starter [cyner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyner/)
 * (@cyner)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/#post-239134)
 * I sure hope it doesn’t ping when *saving* the draft! It’s only supposed to ping
   when you later choose to *publish* a draft. Please let me know if I’m wrong.
 *  Thread Starter [cyner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyner/)
 * (@cyner)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/#post-239142)
 * I have just tested it, and it doesn’t ping when saving drafts — at least not 
   for me. But the text in the options panel wasn’t too clear on this, so I changed
   that for the new version.
 * Version 1.2 enables pinging as soon as the plugin is activated. Before, you had
   to open the settings page to enable it the first time. Besides that there shouldn’t
   be any noticeable changes.
 *  [dsawchuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsawchuk/)
 * (@dsawchuk)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/#post-239468)
 * I love the idea behind this plugin, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. I just
   tried pinging several services and at the end of my list of URLs to ping, I got
   the following error message:
 * could not be pinged. Error message: “transport error – HTTP status code was not
   200”
 * Any suggestions of what to do about this?
 *  [Rok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rok/)
 * (@rok)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/#post-239469)
 * Is it compatible with XMLRPC editors? I use and external editor to make Posts.
 *  Thread Starter [cyner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyner/)
 * (@cyner)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/#post-239473)
 * The error messages are copied verbatim from WordPress’ default ping functionality,
   and they are almost useless for the end user. An alternative would be to replace
   the ping class with a better one, but I’m hoping the WP crew will understand 
   that this is long overdue.
 * Posting from external tools with APIs such as XMLRPC is not tested, and probably
   doesn’t work. But give it a try, and have a look at the logs in the options page.
 * BTW, **development of this plugin is halted**. I, the author, have stopped using
   WordPress, and will not maintain or further develop the plugin. It’s in the public
   domain, though, so I trust the community to improve it.

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 * Last reply from: [cyner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyner/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smart-update-pinger/#post-239473)
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